27 May 1942 – An assassination attempt (pictured) on acting ReichsprotektorReinhardt Heydrich in Prague as part of Operation Anthropoid results in him dying on 4 June – the villages of Lidice and Ležáky are razed to the ground in response
14 August 2002 – Water in the Vltava reaches peak level during the 2002 European floods, in which 17 people in the country die and around 200,000 are evacuated from their homes
11 December 1949 – The Číhošť miracle takes place: during a church service of Josef Toufar in the village of Číhošť, the crucifix moves several times over the pulpit, prompting an intervention by the StB